Blouse.



k PATENTBD AUG. 21, 1906. S. DPPENHEIM. A

BLOUSE.

IPPLIOTIOI FILED JULY, i906.

f "in A TTU/M1578 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BLOUSE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 21, 1906.

Application iile July 25, 1905. Serial No. 271,139

To rtl? whom it muy concern.:

Be it known that I, SARAH (.)rrnnnnrm a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of N ew Yorlgborouoh of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and @tate of New York, have invented a new and Improved Blouse, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

lThis invention relates to blouses such as worn by children.

The invention relates es ecially to the type of blouse which is provi ed with an elastic band or belt which is concealed in the hem rovided at the lower edge of the garment.

n blouses of this ty )e difficulty is encountered in washing the louse, due to the presence of the. elastic band referred to. The blouses usually lose their shape, and the water damages the band or belt.

The object of this invention is to roduce a blouse having a concealed waist and or belt which may be readily removed to enable the blouse'to be washed and which is at the saine time capable of adjustment,

' flhe invention consists in the construction to be described more fully hereinafter and more definitely set forth in the claim.

Reference to be had to the acconlpalrving .lrawings, forming a part of this specilication, in which similar characters of reference indicate correspondingr parts'in all the views.

Figure 1 is a front view of a blouse embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a view showing a portion'of the inner side of the lower edge of the garment at thi` back and illustrating the means for adjustingr the belt. Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. .Z, but showing .the inner side of thc front of the garfnent,

and Fig, 4 is a hori/.ontal section taken through lln waistband at the back.

llrlerrin'hr more particularly to the parts, l represents the body of the blouse, which is of any \1siu.lform,su(h as thai shown. ln applyingjI n'ly invention l turn up the lower edge olI the garment, so as lo forni an open bcln 2. At ibo bark a pflir of vertical buttonholes or slits 3% are placed in thc hein on thc inner side. Within the honi there is provided a belt 4, 'irollrably ol' elastic material, the said belt wing: l'ornifd in opposite sor-tions 4 and 4*. .1\l Ibo forw..rd portion ol' the garment I plano slits 5, which nro foi-ined on the inside ol the hein like lh(I slits Ii referred to abou tape, and the sections 4 `and 4" are Located, respectively, on opposite sides of the' garment. The forward ends 6 of these sectionsprotrudo through the openings 5, as shown 1n F1g. 3, and are provided with longitudinallydisposed buttonholes 7. Adjacent to the slits 5 on the inner side of the hem 2 I rovide buttons 8, and these buttons enable t e beltsections 4 and 4b to be at f. ;hed by means of the buttonholes 7, as indicated. The roar ends 9 and 10 of the belt-sections protrude through the o enings or slits 3, as indicated in Fig. 2, an( these ends are attached to a buckle l 1. The said buckle preferably comprises a rectangular frame 12, of connnon form, and a vertical transverse bar 13, having a longitudinal opening or eye 14. The ends 9 and 1U are passed under the side bars of the frame 12 and attached to tongues 15. Beyond this point and at the center of the buckle they pass through the eye 14, beyond which point they lic loosely at th(` back of the blouse, asfrindicated in Fig. l. 'lhey are turned upwardly, so as to be concealed by the blouse and so that they will not protrude below its lower edge. With this arrangement when it is desired to draw the belt another waist-measure, either' of thc beltseetions 4 or lb maybe lcngthened or shortcned to change tho normal wenst-measure of the blouse.

i When it is desired to wash the blouse, the forward ends 6 of the bolt-sections will be detached from the buttons 8 and the entire belt will be removed by drawing the same from the garment at the rear. After the belt is removed the blouse may be readily washed, and the tension of the belt beingr absent the blouse docs not lose its shape in the washing process. After the blouse has been washed the belt may be readily replaced, as will be understood.

lVhile l prefer to put the slits 3 at the rear, it should be understood that their location is a matter of convenience, the principal object being to place the adjusting-Nickle at an inconspicuous point.

Having thus described my invention, I clairn as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1A blouse having a hein at the lower edge thereof, with rear slits and forward slits on the inner side of said hein, belt-sections con- 4ccalcd in said hein, the forward extremities 'lhoy Iii-ll 4 preferably consistsof a flat elastic `hereof extend through said forward slits IOC) and have buttonholes, and the rear exwith said butto'nholes of said. belt-sections 1r. 'exnities whereof extend through said rear near said forward slits.

slits respectively, an adjusting device be- In testimony whereof l have signed my tween said rear slits having transverse bars naine to thisspeoifieation in the presence of and prongs adapted to hold the belt-sections, tWo subscribing Witnesses.

said rear extremities of said belt-sections SARAH OPPENHEIM. passing over and inward? between said l Witnesses: transverse bars and beinga justably held by MINNIE E. WILSON,

said prongs, and buttons adapted to engage D. W. HYLAND. 

